Samuel P. Carter (1819-1891) has the unique distinction of having been the only man to have been both a major general in the U.S. Army and a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, the former as a volunteer officers during the Civil War and the latter after the war, when he returned to service with the fleet.

A raid on Marcus Island on March 4, 1942 by the USS Enterprise sparked a full-scale defense alert in Japan, for fear that the next Home Islands might be next.

The infamous mutiny in HMS Bounty in 1789 was the only such incident in the Royal Navy between the Seven Years’ War and the French Revolution.

In 394 B.C. a Roman embassy en route to consult the oracle at Delphi, was captured by a squadron from the Lipari Islands which mistook them for Etruscan pirates.

During the 1982 Falklands War, British Harrier aircraft brought down 24 Argentine aircraft using 27 air-to-air missiles, and eight others using cannon, all with no loss to the selves by enemy action

In 1632 the Virginia Assembly declared that every able man was to take a gun to church every Sunday, so that they could drill after services.

Of an estimated 4.5 million American troops who sailed to Europe or North Africa during World War II, 3,594 were lost when their troop ships were sunk.

General of the Armies John J. Pershing’s service number was O1, as he was chief-of-staff at the time that such were instituted.